Primary maths: Fractions

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Ensure your students aren't frazzled by fractions with these stimulating and straightforward resources

Sometimes the best way to overcome any negativity or concern for a topic like fractions is by adding a handful of fresh ideas to your toolbox. With that in mind, we've picked out just some of the varied ways that the Tes community have chosen to tackle the challenge head on. Why not take a look at what they've come up with?

KS1

These were some sheets I designed for our introduction to fractions. We had already looked at doubling and halving and next was halves, quarters and three quarters of shapes and numbers. These are differentiated worksheets made for Year 1.

Hello again. This is my first week of planning and resources to go with the White Rose Maths scheme of learning for Year 1, Summer Block 2, Fractions. It is in my usual format with flipcharts in activprimary and smartboard and there is also a PDF version too. All the other resources are in word so that you can adapt them for your children. I’ve tried to keep up the problem solving this week but I think, with adult, concrete and visual support, modelling, discussion and the small steps, they’ll work well. As always, I hope they save you some time and that your children enjoy them.

Lower KS2

Various differentiated worksheets aimed at getting children to understand how to add fractions, that have the same denominator, to make a whole one. Fraction PowerPoint to recap the basics of fractions.

Some of my mixed 3/4 class struggled with finding fractions where the numerator was higher than 1 (e.g. 2/3 of 15). They also really struggled with putting them in word problems!
I created these step by step worksheets so children could see the progression, e.g.
1/3 of 15 is?
2/3 of 15 is?
I have 15 sweets and I eat 2/3 of them. How many do I eat?

This resource contains the first of two packs designed to support the delivery of the White Rose Maths Scheme Year 3 – Number: Fractions during week 10 of the Spring Term. The resource focuses on the following White Rose Maths 'small steps'

- Unit and Non-Unit Fractions
- Making the Whole
- Tenths
- Count in Tenths
- Tenths as Decimals
- Fractions of a Number Line
- Fractions of a set of objects (1-3)

The resource contains worksheets and activities (concrete, pictorial and abstract) linked to the above small steps with an emphasis on the mastery approach to learning advocated by the White Rose scheme.

For details of the second Year 3 Fractions pack (week 11) click on the link below:

This resource has been designed to consolidate the work undertaken in the White Rose Maths Scheme small steps Year 3 programme delivered in the Spring Term Weeks 1-11. It contains resources for the following blocks of work

This resource is aimed at Year 4 Expected and has been designed to give children the opportunity to consolidate the skills they have learned in Spring Block 3 – Fractions.

The questions are based on the ‘small steps’ that are addressed in the block, but are presented in a different way so children can work through the pack independently and demonstrate their understanding and skills. This resource is themed around giving children the chance to be entrepreneurs and make as much profit as possible.

This is a complete resource pack for teaching equivalent fractions objectives in KS2. Included is a 62 page flip-chart (I have uploaded in ActivInspire, PowerPoint and PDF format) to help deliver the lessons, a 46 page booklet of differentiated activities including puzzles, games and worksheets. I have also included a 5 page planning tool so that you can copy and paste plans into your own planning format and adjust as you wish for each activity. Furthermore, I have included Word versions so you can adapt all activities to your own pupil’s needs if required. This pack will save you hours and hours and hours of planning and generating worksheets, games, problem solving activities and flip-charts. Children will love the themed activities and the great characters in this resource pack and it will make learning about equivalent fractions fun!

Objectives covered:

Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
Identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths
Use common factors to simplify fractions

This pack contains 30 follow me cards and a record sheet for recording answers, with a space for workings out.

These 30 follow me cards are a great way to revise arithmetic with fractions. Play is similar to dominoes, where the cards are placed end to end with the question to the answers, but each question only has one answer. Students connect the questions and answers together forming a chain, with questions steadily getting harder.

Starting with addition of fractions with the same denominators, the questions quickly progress to addition and subtraction with di erent denominators, multiplication and division with fractions, including mixed numbers.

Some ideas for how to use follow me cards:

-Have students race to connect the cards.

-Have a treasure hunt, around the classroom or outside. Students start with the starter card and record the solutions in the table.

-Students each take ownership of a card, and then get themselves in line correctly with the answers. If there are more than 30 students, assign some students as ‘managers’. If there are less than 30 students, the first students to connect their cards can be given the remaining cards.

- Cut each card in half and give the students a matching activity. They can then glue the answers into their books.

A power point introduction and three differentiated activity sheets for multiplying fractions by a whole number. The challenge level 3 also contains mixed number fractions multiplied by a whole number. Please rate and leave a comment about how you get on with it!